The duteous day now closeth (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2020-12-05) CPDL #61797:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-12-05). Score information: A4, 1 page, 47 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2020-12-05) CPDL #61795:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2020-12-05). Score information: A4, 1 page, 114 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: The duteous day now closeth
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Innsbruck
Lyricist: Robert Bridges
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 776. 778
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 17
Description: Melody from German Folk Song.
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Original text and translations
English text
The duteous day now closeth,
each flower and tree reposeth,
shade creeps o’er wild and wood:
let us, as night is falling,
on God our Maker calling,
give thanks to him, the giver good.
Now all the heavenly splendour
breaks forth in starlight tender
from myriad worlds unknown;
and man, the marvel seeing,
forgets his selfish being,
for joy of beauty not his own.
His care he drowneth yonder,
lost in the abyss of wonder;
to heaven his soul doth steal:
this life he disesteemeth,
the day it is that dreameth,
that doth from truth his vision seal.
Awhile his mortal blindness
may miss God’s loving-kindness,
and grope in faithless strife:
but when life’s day is over
shall death’s fair night discover
the fields of everlasting life.